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cept the two sets immediately above the stage put out during bis violin recital on Wednesday afternoon. The City Hall authorities might go still further and bave these few lighte gharted. It would make a big difference for the andienos, especial ly for those towards the back of the balt.

THE CHINA MAIL.

armpits, and then let down into the oil by degrees; first the foot, and next the lege, and so to boil the fezh f.om bir bonen alive." Ugh!

AND PAR AWAY

SPECIAL CABLE.

STRAITS BANK THEFT.

NUMBERS OF THE NOTES

NOT KNOWN.

Pedestrian's. ".) OVER THE BULLA happy articles in the China Mail abould encourage many local resi

[China Mail SPECIAL.] They were both dents to seek pleasures they have NAUTICAL LINGO. chief officers, paslitherto neglected. Both the island

SINGAPORE, October 6. No clue has been found in con- SALgers on an and the mainland offor countiesa "Empresa "liner from Japan, where walks, over bill and down vale. For nection with the French bank their steamer had been paid most of those pathe the Colony has to robbery. The bank offers the in olf. A playful gust ol wind thank Paddy May. Now that former 5 per cent. of any money blew the One'H спр down Pedestrian" has painted some of recovered. The numbers of the notes the engine room skylight. Cried he, the delights awaiting the more active are not known. Eastern countries gazing down at the great machinery, spirits we will be able to borrow have been warned to look out for "Oh! Bertio, come and lock at the Scott's lyre to chant

$1 000 Straits notes, of which 332 works!

My contribution to NOT FOR ME the controversy which a correspond nt, whose letter appears in this issue, threatens

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Breathes there the man, with soul so

dead. Our local walk notce having readì. Continuro ill to laze in bed? Whose thoughts have de'er yet turned

were stolen.

CHINA NEWS.

SATURDAY,

MORE LOCAL WALKS.

PLEASANT AFTERNOON

RAMBLES,

The walk along Bowen Road is deservedly popular, but very few of Hongkong's hikers" seem to be aware

GOTOBER 7. 1922.

CORRESPONDENCE.

"BEAVER!"

(To the Editor of the " China Moil,""]

Bir,-As the splash of the stone

of the existence of the equally pretty,fing into the pool sands out its ever if not prettier stroll along the Conduit. widening ripple so does a faint Those who do not know the easy and London amuses itself during its reflection of the stunts with which charming walk ought to become periodical silly seasons reach us even- acquainted with it at once. Take a

chair or climb to Condoit Road, tually here in Hongkong. Not long thence strike westward never leaving go the home papers were telling us the Conduit Road level. Beyond the that everyone was raving about the filter beds the town is left behind and

"pogo" and the "pogo" daly the pedestrian is ushered into a lane ppeared in Hongkong. Coussa of soothing sylvan beauty. The rund

bad ite turn next and дом is well shaded in the many cutting arrived. In a local picture show the beaver-bunting". Berms to have whose baldness has been beautified by other night a man sitting a fow seater the pruning hand of time, while every now and then open spaces afford away rapped out "Beaver!", like a glorious views of the western barbour, oath, the moment the patriarchat. Tai Mo Shan, Kep Sui Moon, Lan gure of the heroine's stapfather tumoured that the arrival of this which glow like emeraldsin an azure

new terror has been responsible for sea. The Conduit which is practically sending our best koown journalist at level almost coincides with the 300)

to start, is lifted from the Coacise To the charms be has hitherto aparned TSAO KUN SUPPORTS CABINET.Tac, and the smaller western izles "ppeared on the screen, and it is freely

In this extremely beautiful land.

Some there are

PERING, October 7. Teac Kun's representative

Oxford Dictionary:-" Amphibipas broad tailed, soft-furred rodent baild- jing bute and dame." · That's all. HE LOATH THE in the Colony, of

Huebed every leaf,

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course. whose EXILE'S SONG. the Bilent bu-b

Peking denies current reports that foot contour line, and this being so, quaking from the Colony. What is feelings are aptly Teso opposes the presint cabinet. He cod, owing to the formation of the Does anybody know what, in the the paychology of the thing, anyway? drowses under expressed in Congreve's play: states, on the contrary, that Teso bills, it ag zaga most picturesqarly. cloudless Australian sky.. Slowly the nauseats walking tiss country Ken is in full accord with the When Pokfulam is reached one can have to do with beards?

name of all that's rational, beavers springless cart jolts down the long diversion; I loathe the country." white road atretching away to the But there are others for whom the Cabinet to which he is prepared to either turn to the left and ascend to the Peak, or to the right and descend gleaming ocean. The driver, alone poeta sing, All I ask the heaven give overy assistance.

bis horse, croons softly to above and the road below me."

to town past the University. The himself. Exiled in a foreign land, he Now the joys of the road are chiefly

by the Conduit as the reverse roste best thing to do however is to return sings of home. Sadly he sings and Ltd. the trees stirring gently etrain to A cimson touch on the bird wood

present: many fresh and beautiful catch the quaint benuty of bialay. It tiree;

views. A very pleasant afternoon ramble ! is the market gardener's song of love in old Canton.

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A Vagrant's morning wide and blue, In early fall, when the wind walks,

ton; A shond of black fish in the OMEAS. barbour o Wedne day

alternoon is declared by some Chinese to have been a bad omen. Fearful of impending mis fortune several sampan men beetily got out their jos gear and forthwith invoked the protection of the super- natural. History records several not- able instances where omers Wers supposed to have been fulfilled. Cicero quotes one where a Brestian nothsayer promised victory to the Thebane from the crowing of a cock. | Mary de Medicis dreamed she saw the brilliant genus of her crown change into peals, the symbol of tears and mourning. And I once dremand the "I'd won the Shanghai Champions

That omen was certainly followed by tragedy,

SERTANT PROBLEM

A friend of the family recounts the story. Little Willi found

A shadowy highway cool and brown, Eaticing up and enticing down ・・・・ Aud so on, through many beautiful

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

ARMS FOR MUKDEN. ments of arms from Vladivostok to It is reliably reported that ship. blakden are continuing via the Chinese Eastern Railway.

· TOOCHOW'S SAFETY, It is reported that Hsu Chung-shib has arrived at Kutien, while Little He is at Yeapingfu with General Wang Yung.chuan.

A meeting of inducatial people at Foochow has requested the Chinese warahine lying at Mamoi to faraish protection against lasting if the in- vadera enter the city.

Admiral Sab Chea-ping is reported to be en route for Foochow --Reuter,

+ - A bager pool competition will be held on the Old Course, at Fanling, on alonday, Octobei 9.

The Licensing Board meets on Friday, Nov fiber 3 tu consider liquor

applications for ! next year,

licence

Tenement rates for the fourth qtalter of this year must be paid on

Ostuber 31. Default will mean Fanda

AGAIN. New Zealand very No. 1 obl Bailey, the residence of different from China. Never before Mes. D.D. Gebimatt, was entered by bad bracen bis dear mother cooking bitulars, last night. Several rolls of aad the spectacle worried him. The Inli in silk worth $600 ware stolen. gravely accepted the statement that servanta were very difficult to secure

Mr. T. W. Ainsworth has been in his new home, and then nsively aqualed to act as an Assistant to inquired if there would be nor the Sarretary for Chinese Affairs and servant is beaven. When his mother as a Deputy. Registrar of Marriage. very properly informs him that of

course there would not be any During the absence from the srvants in heaven he was stricken Culony (Mr. A. W. Van Andel Mr.

The China Mailcary back of soucies and pingunt eilet with distresa. Little Willie did E. Lafleur will be in charge of the

"TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC KERVICE"

HONGKONG, SAvernay, fer

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JAPAN SPY MANIA.

PROMINENT AMERICAN RESIDENT ARRESTED.

tramp can be had by striking up the Another enjoyable afterzoon's path beside the big nullah just beyond Taikoo Sugar Refinery. At present the catrance is partly obscured owing

acumen of

• Yours etc.

CURIOUS.

Hongkong, October 6,

SHIPPING MANAGER IN TROUBLE.

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Mr. R.E. Lindsell heard a case fes- terday afternoon, in which the late manager of the Wat Hing Shipping to the big building operations going Firmis charged with having converted on there, but it is easily found. It is to his own use two sums of money, A magnificent broad path, regularly amounting ia all to $381, the graded, commanding masy superb property of the firm. views. As we begin the ascent our Mr. H. L. Dennys prosecuted for gaze wanders across to the "town the firm and Mr. H. C Lee appeared of Taikoo," an 1 we cannot but bolp for the defendant (Tong Msa-kee).. admiring the courage, leresight, and The complainanta allege that the those long-hrade defendant drew certain sums of money, merchant princes of Greenock who amounting to $720 from the Firm for must have dipped their banila deep the parpoes of introducing new cus- into their pocketa in order to level tom to the Firm, which commrnced building sites and carve gigantic docks business during the early part of oat of the stubborn granite. Leaving the present year. Investigationa this hive of in lustry behind, as we showed that the $720 had not been climb by an easy gradient, and, were sp, nt in accordance with the purpose it not for the presence of the serial for which it was drawn. In the ca railway which we approach every now of another sum of money, $161 the and then, we might ime gine Durgalves complainants state that the Captain in Glen Ogle or some other wild Scot of the a.s. "Duwey" paid the defen- tish glen. The mighty mass of dant this amount in settlement of an The charges include the operating Mount Parker, second of Hongkong's account due to the Firm. The money of a into boat without a licence or brights, with its boulder-strewn was never received by them.

qualified crew and entering afronping rides, the small waterfalls Arco ding to a partner in the Firm, fortified zone without a permit. each adding a noisy quota to the named Fong Hop, the defendant was The matter. which is being Dameless stream that gaily slips overpaid no salary, but re:eived a com investigated, is not regarded seriously the sto es in its headlong race in the mission on the profits and had his and is obviously based on wrong sea, and the feeling of detachment living expenses paid. information The precipitata action combine to remind the beholder of of the polics is calling forth sarcastic Scott's lines. comment on every side.-Reuter.

TOKYO, October 5th.. Considerable surprise was expresse bere at a police domiciliary search of the office and residence of Mr. R. Andrew, one of the most prominent American, residents and head of the established firm of Andrews, George And Wells.

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earlier

Respecting the sum of $720 the caebit of the Firm produced his accounts in Court which showed that this am unt was drawn by the defen- dant in small sume for the use of the Standard Oil Company."

sprech. Most offices in the States not like to think of his mother spend local office of the Holland-China

Taikoo Sanitorium, the summer At this stage the case was adjourn display their pointed business deming eternity washing dishes. Then a Trading Company.

quarters provided by a generous firmed for one werk, when the prosecution andmente, Time'e Money," or apme few minutes later be inquired hopeful.

According to the water retum for for their European Employeer, 1,003 propose to call Mr. W. J. G. Whiley similar curt reminder. This praction ly, "Mother, couldn't we get a couple has now been extended to, the home. up from hell **

The King has not bien advised September which has just teen issued it, maiks the summit of the main to state whether the money in ques- A friend of mine who recently retara

to exercise his power of disallowance two of the reservoirs on the land path. If our matto be Excelsior" tion was received by the Standard Oil Superior people oftimes jer with respect to the or linence to Tytam and Tytan Byewash) are full we take the small path, specially con Company. Last week "Ad ed from a trip to Americu visited one

SIGNS. At quailt Chinese signs. amend the Hongkong and Shangbai and so is the Kowloon reservoir. The structed many years ago for the Duke The defendant, who is a young man, THE GENEROUS versarias " de house where the cheerfully aggressive

These two come not from Bank Ordinance, 1866. nounced the warning was displayel on the diuing Yaumati or Shaukiwan. but from a

water in Tytam Tuk, however, is of Connaught, to the top of Mt. Par. was allowed bail of $500, still 26 ft. 5 ius. from the top. On the ker, 1734 ft From this point of "etupid grnd" room wall in bold letters: "If you populoza Home city: "Buots Poliebed"

A foki of the Fook We ti ve

firet of this month we had 1,479.13 vantage the eye sweeps the horizon

KOWLOON THEATRE. start something !"

for a First Class Funeral."

who cashed a cheque for $1,739, where last year there were 2,055 10 the South, the mighty Pacific with its The following statistics drawn in favour of the firm, at the gallons. The figures for Kowloon are islands, and below, Tytam reservoirs; TO-NIGHT'S SPECIAL SURPRISE CRIME. can be added to those Chin Yuen Bauk, is reported to have the same as last year. The commmp East, the glorious panorama of Lyes-

quated in Monday's Chins absconded with the money. Mail crime leader. They speak for

tion per head was 17.9 gallons a day man and the surrounding bills and themselves. Uoe out of every thirty

in Hongkong (34.4 gallons last year) winding bays and pasta; North, the

SCOT.

that Scotsmen are mean. How the want to know who's boss hero, just Krsile." and "Everything Requisite firm of No. 130, B inbam Strand Eas: million gallons stored in Hongkong and bebolds beauty everywhere: toi

libel ever aroan he could not guess.

I can. It was started by some acute Englishman who boped Scotsman would spand their lives refuting it.

"Demonstrations took BAH! place in Athens, culminat- ing in the mob surrounding There are many the Palace and threstening to seiz

SEA RECORD? nautical men her, the King, who thereupon abdicated."

Has any of them Contrast this with the delirious motor cars in New York City is stolen

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The rainfall for the month of

OLD WELLS QUESTION,

DANCE.

What is described as a Special

Charged at the Magistracy this and 11.1 per day in Kowloon (14.6 solid mass of the Kowloon Mountains Surprise danca is to ta'e place at ever heard of a steamer making exeot-į enthusiasm which greeted Can every year. In 1917 there wale com. morning with the unlawful possession/last year). Up to September 30 last barring, as it were, the way into the Kowloon Theatre to sight, The ly the same mileage two daya running? § stantine's returf from exile and you mitted in the United States 115 of a dagger, a Chinese gave the usual Fear 96.53 inches of rain fell; this year) Chios; West, the matchless skyline masic for it is to be furnished by the we have only bad 65.10 inches during of Mt. Kellet, the Peak, the hills of International Variety Company's The Eastern and Australian "Ara have an excellent example of the barglaries and 80 hold-ups of banks; excuse that the weapon was given to the same period. The Government Lan Tao, and in the far distance electric super jazz band" which has fars," whios arrived here from Japan crowd's favour, fickle as the restless in 1921 there were 319 burglaries and bim by another man to carry. He Analyst gives his assurance that the Castle Peak standing sentinel at the been doing its best to electrify this week, made (I'm told) exactly the sea. Perhaps the best example of 136 held-ups. Borglary insurance was sent to jail for six months. same distance-202 miles-three days vacillation history offers, however, is companies paid out to banks for losses

quality of the water is "satisfactory." Western Extremity of the British peninsular people daring the last dominions. We now descend by a night or two and sandwiched in running coming through the Arafura the Faris newspaper record of Bona suffered by theft in 1915 the sum of

beautifu! road to the reservou to between the dances will be vocal and Sea. This is surely a record. parta's departure from the Isle of Elba, $1,638,853. In 1920 the payments September at the Botanical Gardens

It was indicated by the Hon. Mr. Tetam, cross the dam, swing round to terpsioborean naabers by the rest

BAD DEUTS. China Mail leader into the French capital. This is how of 543 per cent. in five years. That's Matilda Hospital, Mount Kellett, it/Dese Chamber of Commerce Committee by a very easy and very pretty road the Kowloon Theatre onglit to be a One point Thursday's hie march across France and his entry aggregated $10,189,853, an increase was ains 51 on 15 days, at the Chow Shou sou at a meeting of the Chi- the right, and ascend via Stanley Gap of the company. Tonight's house at failed to emphasize, it read 9th March.The Cannibal one thing. Our thieves may loot was Sink .56 on 15 days, and at the vesterday that he had asked the to Wong Nei Choong Gap. Au record. The anal matinee pictara The thousands of dollars lost annual has escapad from his deu. 10th.-The banks and raid houses, but they can't Police Station, Taipo, it was Dins .88 Water Authority (the Hon. Mr. T. L alternative lunger way to this Cap show will take place at 5.45 p.20. ly in bad debts, must be recovered Cortican Ogre har just landed at very well steal motor cars. There's ca 20 days

Perkins) whetker it was possible to from the raservoir is by the catch. from the whole community, but Caps Juan. 11th-The Tiger has no where to take them.

re-open the old wells in Hongkong, to water which winds its way from near the whole community in this respect arrived at Gap. 18th-The Monster

augment the water supply. Mr. Wong Nei Cheong round by the South smonals to only a few thousand has passed the night at Grenoble.

Last month the maximum Perkins had not committed him- of Violet Hill. This is a fascinating "It'aquafe niright, "INSOLATION" old man. Octo- temperature was $1,3 on the 17th, self to anything but had a ked to be walk on a narrow ledge which clings Europeane.

13th. The Tyrant bas crossed Lyons,

ber's sun is per and the minimam 60,3 on the 30th supplied with the locations of the to the steep side of the hill command Hongkong is not the 14th.--The Usurper is direct fectly harmless." And so I lay on a There were 205.3 hours of sunshine: walls. Mr. Chow Shou son thought ing beautiful viens of Deep Water FRECEDENT. only Eastera porting his course towards Dijon, delightful beach and dreated swhile The wind's greatest velocity (at the bat if this information could be Bay, Repulse Bay, and Tytam Bay.

where the unpaid but the brave and loyal Burgundians Now I've got shoulders that make Royal Observatory) was 39.8 miles an obtained it was not unlikely that, debt ovil is rampant. How bad it is bave risen in a body and they sur me sympathise with the poor devils buur on the 20th.

with the ending of the rainy season, the Government might caretion the the Government had bought boring "by a dip into boiling oil. This Kys

re-opening of the walls. He added that machinery for use in an emergener

in the Straits just now I do not know,round him on all siden, 18th. hat this I do know. Several years Bonaparte in sixty leagues from the were tortured in "the good old

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INTERPORT TRIAL..

UNION TERMS.

COOLIES ATTACK WOMEN CUTTING RATES.

A number of coolies are alleged to have assaulted several women" who? undertook to carry debris from demolished house opposite the Eastern Theatre for 24 cents a londī instead of the fixed rate of 3

There . cents. big disturbance and the polien had to

WAS

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ago it was so glaring at Penang that Capital; he has had kill enough to "inealation," mediest friend ex at the house of an Indian nierebant An ingenious robbery took place one bumcrist, leaving the Colony, was escape from the hands of his pursuere plains, ie la galy due to the so called in Arab Street, Singapore. The thiel moved to advertise that he was going 19th. Bonaparte advances rapidly, chemical" or ultra-violet rays. Quite is sparently one out of the ordinary

and was willing to pay bis deble but he will never enter Paris, 20th-

It was decided that the Chamber before he went. And wasn't the com-To-morrow Napoleon will be under independent of heat, it can onour in of light fingered gentry, judging by should sale for the desired information

There will be a whole day match interfere. Two men alleged to have. munity proporly scandalised. (uar ramparts. 21eb-The Emperor

the Arctic regions. So, beware.

the ingenuity be displayed in through the Chinese papers. on the H.K.C.C. ground on Monday been the instigators of the result Remarkable placo, Hong-ia at Fontainbleau. 2203-His Im

Incidentally, attaining hisobject. It would appear

9th. instant, conmencing at 10.45 wero arrested. Several of the women were, injured and bad to receive Long. Half the time we perial and Royal Majesty last evening

BOILING TO DEATH. it is Det that, with the aid of sundry poles,

p.m. between the following sides: bemoan our lack of theatre made his entrance into his Palace of

R. Hancock (Capt), T. E. Pearce, medical attention, seeming to lampe, barrels of cement, and come entertainments and then when they the Tuileries, amidet the joyous jest about boiling in oil. This horrible dry coment itself, he deluded passers

Capt Davies, R. Bayer, Capt Oliver, B.. D. Evans, A. el, Arculli, einig we leave them to play to ball: soolamations of his adoring and faithful punishment. was inflicted on coiners by into concluding that a new plot of

DURING THE NIGHT.; empty houses If we gave support to people

and counterfeiters even in the seven. cement had been laid on the five-foot The telegram quoted below was re- Capt Le Fleming, G. Stapleton, R.

-YAUMATI HOUSE BURGLED. "¡thoac, which, brave, the perit diny

Quite thirty terath century: Taylor, the Water way in front of the house he had ceived by the local American Owen Haghes, L. J. Davis, ned.D. Eastern tour we might get more. But, FASILY REMEDIED cleario Jights Foot describes an execution he designs on. Within the barricade Consulate General, from the Manila. Donnelly

A. B. Wood (Capt) Major Mat- A burglar entered the Diocesan thon, as Kipling's poem bas it, "If.

elins in your witted at Hamburg in 1816. Ths he set up he placed packing case. Observatory --

thews, B. J. R Mitchell, E. B. Beed, Girls' School, Taumati, Isat night," The aborteat, epitaph,

eyes when you judgment pronounced against a coiner In it he hid until the right moment, 7 October 1922, at 9,00 a.m. VERB, RAP. "Putter's Clay," may look towards the City Hall's dais, of false inosay was that he should then got into the house, and without Typhoon in about 130 deg. Long F. J. De Rome, A. L. Gice, A. 4. through a window which had been left not have or ginated in The strain in acute. Apparently the be boiled to death in chif not throws anyone being a bit the wver, got cut 30 deg. Zat. N. moving W. N. W. Ramjahn U Omar, R. E. A. Webster, open, Finding his way to Mrs. Jen elin United States, bat anyhow our artist also suffer annoyance some into the rescel at once, but with again with $400 in cash, and his Cyclons or typhoon N. E. of Luzon Lt. N. D. Bacch, Rev. H. 8. Grole kehan's bedroom, he helped biconelf American couales have an almost an- times, Mishel Pisstry having alf ́es. I pulley or rope to be hanged under the sever been heard of since,

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